Because a view is a local cursor, created locally and not shared. A table may be shared.

Good luck on your future VFP endeavors.

>thank sir. one more question for grins. when i buffer a view with CURSORSETPROP("buffering",5,)i'm not rquired to SET MULTILOCKS ON, but that not case with a table, why?

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